Workers' Compensation News

The insurer of a South Carolina employer that borrowed an employee from a North Carolina company to work on a project in Florida cannot be held liable for that worker's on-the-job injury, the North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled.
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The opioid crisis has hit especially hard the southern portion of West Virginia, which includes four of the top counties in the nation for fatal opioid overdoses, according to an investigative report in the Charleston Gazette-Mail.
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The dollar amount of penalties levied against Connecticut companies for OSHA violations dropped by more than half between 2011 and 2015, and the number of cases fell by 40%, the Connecticut ...Read More

Michigan's maximum weekly compensation rate will be $870 in 2017, the state announced this week.
In accordance with Section 418.355(2) of the Workers' Disability Compensation Act, the maximum weekly benefit is based on 90% of the state average weekly wage.
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The Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation has approved its proposed Independent Review Organization Plan-Based Audit.
The audit sets the scope, methodology, selection criteria and program area responsibilities as laid out in the medical quality review process.
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Los Angeles Basin residents filed 51% of California’s workers’ comp cumulative trauma claims in 2005, a number that grew to 67% in 2013, according to new research from the California Workers’ Compensation Institute.
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A New York firefighter has been arrested for alleged workers' comp fraud on both ends: He was found to be working while collecting benefits, and he failed to provide comp insurance for his own company's employees, authorities said.
Raphael Ziegler, 41, of Monsey, New York, a volunteer firefighter and former fire inspector, is charged with ...
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The appointment of two new Supreme Court justices and a third to come has given new hope to insurers and employers that Florida lawmakers will revisit the idea of limits on attorney fees in workers' compensation cases.
Newly elected Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed the justices this week after three former Supreme Court judges h...
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